Like, I know how to angle the screenshots and how to position it and whatnot, but when I actually press F12 and look at the actual screenshot it looks blurry and jagged as hell, like it was taken at 1360x768, even though my resolution is set to 1920x1080. I'm using Paint.Net to view the TGA file. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to use a higher screen resolution or what?

I'm using full screen by the way, I'm not sure if windowed has any effect on picture quality.

The in-game screenshot system is the best assuming you are using BB93's version. Post a screenshot here so we can actually see what you mean.

You don't.

SLRR with forced AF and AA at 1080p looks like shit still.

You need at least 1440p or 4K. The pictures you are looking at were taken at higher resolutions and downsampled to 1080p in photoshop or something else, but SLRR is a bitch to run and higher res, I used to run it at 4K or higher but I forgot how I did that and can't do it again, so someone else should help you, and me since I'm interested in getting it to 4K without giving an error again.

Try an ENB like this
I use it and with a good bit of zoom turns out like this:


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uuhhhh DHR? Kinda everyone uses 1080p, I use it myself and I have no aa issues. 1080p is well enough for photos, all you need is zoom.

If you need to go 8k for no jagged edges you have a problem. I take all my pics in 1080p and they never have jagged edges.

This pic has multiple cars in it and still has no jagged edges and it's in 1080p. Resolution like 8k is unnecessary, especially is SLRR of all games.

1440p/4k makes the game super unstable. Try the enb I linked, it has SMAA which improves jagged edges a lot. Pair it with some zoom and you will see massive improvements.

Which picture? IQ of the picture?

# ShadoWPhoeniX : So here's a screenshot I took with SLRR Light Edition (which people claim to be the best):

And here's a screenshot that I found a few threads back, which looks absolutely clean with minimal jaggies.

It could just be my bad cinematography but the muscle car picture looks noticeably cleaner than my own picture, and I have no idea how they did it.

That mustang pic is mine and since you liked, i may tell you what i do, to make the pics looking clean. (Btw, my pc specs are kinda low, i use a monitor that is 1440x900 and just a 9500GT by geforce)
First of all, don't even think of running slrr in window mode, unless you use a potato has a computer.
Second, the Enb that i used to take that pic you showed, was the "Better Everything Sweet FX" (That can be found in DL section)(But i don't recommend you to use it and i will explain why a few lines below)
Third, if you have a nvidia video card, you'll need to force AA (Mine are set to maximum), 'cause the original AA of slrr looks like crap.
Fourth, run slrr in your native screen resolution (Mine are 1440x900, so i programmed to run in that res.), if you do this you should be fine.
Fifth, if you don't have a powerful PC, prepare yourself, 'cause slrr will run with 20fps or less.
Sixth, be patient, usually i take around a half an hour to build just one car. And the other half of hour, taking pics.
Seventh, don't use any other slrr besides BB93's one to take pics. The one he made is the best. No wonder he's the boss. (Just use the other ones if you are looking for a real gameplay, like racing or build for fun.)
Eighth, here's a recent pic i took , the ENB i used for that pic is the one made by doge's (Can also be found i DL section). Use the one made by him (doge), 'cause the "Better Everything Sweet FX" can't handle slrr too well, and by that i mean it still looks like the raw slrr.
Ninth, if you use a lot of mods, the game might crash a few times (Slrr if very unstable), if it does, just restart it. (Remember to always save your car by, exiting your career and reloading it)
Tenth, personally i think there's nothing wrong by taking pics directly in slrr (Pressing F12). But at this point you should decide which way is the best for you.

If you have any more questions or doubts, just PM me for further information.

# Yeda : That mustang pic is mine and since you liked, i may tell you what i do, to make the pics looking clean. (Btw, my pc specs are kinda low, i use a monitor that is 1440x900 and just a 9500GT by geforce)
First of all, don't even think of running slrr in window mode, unless you use a potato has a computer.
Second, the Enb that i used to take that pic you showed, was the "Better Everything Sweet FX" (That can be found in DL section)(But i don't recommend you to use it and i will explain why a few lines below)
Third, if you have a nvidia video card, you'll need to force AA (Mine are set to maximum), 'cause the original AA of slrr looks like crap.
Fourth, run slrr in your native screen resolution (Mine are 1440x900, so i programmed to run in that res.), if you do this you should be fine.
Fifth, if you don't have a powerful PC, prepare yourself, 'cause slrr will run with 20fps or less.
Sixth, be patient, usually i take around a half an hour to build just one car. And the other half of hour, taking pics.
Seventh, don't use any other slrr besides BB93's one to take pics. The one he made is the best. No wonder he's the boss. (Just use the other ones if you are looking for a real gameplay, like racing or build for fun.)
Eighth, here's a recent pic i took

, the ENB i used for that pic is the one made by doge's (Can also be found i DL section). Use the one made by him (doge), 'cause the "Better Everything Sweet FX" can't handle slrr too well, and by that i mean it still looks like the raw slrr.
Ninth, if you use a lot of mods, the game might crash a few times (Slrr if very unstable), if it does, just restart it. (Remember to always save your car by, exiting your career and reloading it)
Tenth, personally i think there's nothing wrong by taking pics directly in slrr (Pressing F12). But at this point you should decide which way is the best for you.

If you have any more questions or doubts, just PM me for further information.

Thank you very much! I'll try these out when I get home to my PC.

# ShadoWPhoeniX : So here's a screenshot I took with SLRR Light Edition (which people claim to be the best):

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Dude those are preddy damn good shots for a 750ti anymore than that and you will have to upgrade your card..

This is on a GTX770 but its a 4gb one.



Just force AA through Nvidia control panel or Nvidia Inspector. Your game will have slow loading times but you should be able to get the look you are after.

Also use zoom when taking photos.

Edit: Just saw your post, use the ingame screenshot tool... its perfectly capable enough. Then just open it with a photo editing program or w/e and export as a .png or .jpg

4k is totally useless on SLRR its over 7 years old.

You can open the .tga with 'Image Magick' or GIMP, then export to a .png.

This means you don't lose as much quality as you do with .jpg.

fuck now i found my problem When i upgraded for win 10 i was getting wy worse pictures but never taught it was because my converter changed to jpg

Bigger monitor

Fair enough, I guess I should start on my photoshop skills. What are the most important for making a shot look good in Photoshop?

Here I used DSR and max possible AA forced by drivers, then I got it in PS and did a lot of PS corrections like contrast, colour and clarity enhancing, some HDR, not to mention there was four photos used (two colours of car, two levels of DoF).

You can run SLRR in whateverK as long as your PC supports it (even if it runs in 2 FPS with maxed AA like on my GT620, though I use an overkill AA set), it doesn't (as shouldn't) affect stability of the game itself.

SLRR screen capture (F12) doesn't save AA (or at least it didn't when I checked it last time), Fraps ftw.
ENBs and other d3d9 mods kill your forced AA too, so if you use it there's no wonder it looks jagged (and no, just turning it off doesn't help)

And use png. JPEG sucks your quality, even with the lowest compression possible.

# Zero : Bigger monitor

Veri fani. I approve

# ShadoWPhoeniX :
I found a picture in SLRR that was taken in 1440p and it looks VASTLY better than all of the photos in this thread. I wanna know how to run SLRR in 1440P...

Dude your 750ti is a 2gb graphics card.. You can't expect much. Listen to everyones advice use coprone's or whoever elses ENB and use zoom on photos.

# Sam C : Dude your 750ti is a 2gb graphics card.. You can't expect much.

SLR:R can only process a maximum of 2 GB graphics memory anyway, so any more than that won't make any difference.

Here's a shot taken at 4K




The quality as you can see is shit-tier. This is 4K and this is 1080p quality. This is why I say it needs 8K.




Here's with Nvidia control panel settings. I had them for another slrr exe so it wasn't working.

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